Second World War

Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle.

Michael Houlihan claims the Allies could have used Resistance to better effect before and after D-Day.

Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.

The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.

John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?

Geoffrey Warner continues our series on Post-War Reconstruction.

W.A. Coupe on a tabloid paper as a microcosm of Weimar Germany

W.A. Coupe argues that German cartoonists ridiculed Hitler as a Chaplinesque little man, so it was easy not to take him seriously – until it was too late.

Gordon Daniels on the sustained bombardement of the Japanese mainland, prior to the use of the Atomic bombs.